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By request … 2026 Book bracket in a second color palette for your enjoyment 🤗

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

CSeydel Thanks for posting both graphics! This way people can run category-specific “tournaments” - eg, nonfiction, genre books, memoirs, graphic novels, etc. 2w

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LitsyEvents

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Happy new year, everyone! I made a 2026 bracket template for those who would like one.

Each month, choose the best book you read that month and repost this graphic with your book added to the appropriate box. They will face off against each other until one is crowned the best book you read all year. There are also two “bonus” spaces to even up the matches!

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

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CSeydel

Take Two!: A Celebration of Twins | Jane Yolen, J. Patrick Lewis

By request … 2026 Book bracket in a second color palette for your enjoyment 🤗

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

Amiable

Soubhiville Yay, thank you! 2w

Amiable Thank you so much! 🙌🏼🤩 2w

GingerAntics Ooooooooh, I like the new color scheme!!! 2w

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dabbe So pretty! Thank you! 💚🩵🤎 2w

kspenmoll Thanks!!! 2w

BookishMarginalia Nice! 2w

Offmybookshelf Thank you for both 2w

Aconight I love this 😍 2w

Meshell1313 Love your brackets! Thanks for making these again! 😍❤️ 2w

rachelsbrittain Yay so excited to start a new year of this! 2w

CSeydel @Soubhiville @Amiable @GingerAntics @dabbe @kspenmoll @BookishMarginalia @Offmybookshelf @Aconight @Meshell1313 @rachelsbrittain Thanks everyone! I‘m so glad people enjoy these 😊 2w

Amiable @CSeydel In 2024 I posted my monthly brackets on Facebook for some friends who are readers to follow along. It was like a social media book club and prompted discussions and sharing. I didn‘t do it in 2025 because I lost motivation and enthusiasm due to current events 😖 and all of my friends clamored for me to post again this year because they missed it. So your brackets have a wide reach! 🙂 2w

CSeydel @Amiable oh wow!!!! I‘m delighted to hear that! 2w

BethM Love it! I print it and drag my long suffering paper around my house 😂 2w

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CSeydel

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Happy new year, everyone! I made a 2026 bracket template for those who would like one.

Each month, choose the best book you read that month and repost this graphic with your book added to the appropriate box. They will face off against each other until one is crowned the best book you read all year. There are also two “bonus” spaces to even up the matches!

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

Amiable Yay! Can you make another in a different color? I track fiction and NF separately. 😬 2w

CSeydel @Amiable Sure, let me see what I can do 2w

LeeRHarry Thank you for doing this again. 😊 Happy New Year! (edited) 2w

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CSeydel @LeeRHarry Thanks for playing along! I love seeing everyone‘s choices each month. Happy new year to you as well! 2w

Soubhiville Oh two colors! I like this one better, but maybe I‘ll do as @Amiable is doing… 😁📚 2w

Amiable @Soubhiville I have to separate the genres —it‘s too hard for me to compare them equally. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😀 2w

GingerAntics Ooooooooh, I like this one even better!!! 2w

CSeydel @Soubhiville @GingerAntics Thanks! This was the original 2026 design, but I made a second color scheme for people like @amiable who do separate fiction and nonfiction brackets 2w

GingerAntics @CSeydel I was just thinking that. Having the two different colors would help keep them separate. Love that so much!!! 2w

CSeydel @Amiable I know what you mean - when I do a single bracket my nonfiction reads always win. But when I tried to do two brackets, I realized I don‘t read more than one NF per month - and sometimes it takes me a couple of months to read a really good one. 2w

dabbe Now officially on the new #LELH (#LitsyEventsLittleHelper) spreadsheet! Thanks for this; it's lovely! 🤩

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xB17c0YZ6-IcngwWteNPyWiwoLn3bvcb7kjtqOLu... 2w

CSeydel @dabbe Thanks! I was just copying the link to send you 😆 2w

CSeydel @dabbe If I could get one new Litsy feature it would be PINNED POSTS on our profiles!! 2w

dabbe @CSeydel 🎯🎯🎯 2w

Meshell1313 Perfection! 😍 2w

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GingerAntics

Sinner | Sierra Simone

There are QUITE a few dirty books in this bracket!!! I even had to switch two books around (wild card vs Feb) just so that I could give all of the books a proper chance. This book was dirty (sooo dirty) but also really philosophical, so it appealed on so many levels. (I hope we get a book for the youngest Bell brother, too… just saying.)
#SierraSimone #Sinner #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #fiction @CSeydel

GingerAntics Just realised that my top author of the year, Elira Firethorn, is not in this bracket at all!!! I have failed Oliver, Elliot, Rhett, Wren, Cora, Ezra, and Wilder!!! I have failed Elira Firethorn!!! 2w

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GingerAntics

The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed | Wendy Lower

I haven‘t been able to shut up about the brilliant scholarship of this book since I read it.
#WendyLower #TheRavine #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #nonfiction @CSeydel

lil1inblue I was going to stack this, but realized I already did! I am definitely reading this in 2026. 2w

GingerAntics @lil1inblue STOP!!! Read The Holocaust by Bullets first! That one is a memoir, and then this one gets into the scholarship more. I guess, depending on which one appeals more, read the other first. 2w

lil1inblue @GingerAntics Ooh. Thank you! I'll read both, but will start where you recommend! 2w

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WildAlaskaBibliophile

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery | Brom

Though I loved The Wanderer, More Weight edged it out as my favorite read from October to December. The Hike then surpassed More Weight to advance—only to be defeated in the final matchup of the year by Slewfoot. A thoroughly deserving winner, Slewfoot earns my Book of the Year for 2025. 😊 #readingbracket #bookbracket #readingbracket2025 #bookbracket2025 #bookoftheyear #bookoftheyear2025

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WildAlaskaBibliophile

The Wanderer: An Alaska Wolf's Final Journey | Tom Walker

My favorite December read is the tagged. Through one wolf‘s epic journey, Walker traces terrain, history, looming threats, and other animals, recounting the wolf‘s final months while probing the species‘ fight for survival. The Wanderer blends natural history with the complex human relationship—Indigenous peoples, settlers, scientists, and politicians—with this predator. #bookbracket #readingbracket #bookbracket2025 #readingbracket2025

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CSeydel

Passage | Connie Willis

December‘s winner is PASSAGE by Connie Willis.

This isn‘t my favorite Willis — not even top 3, honestly — but it was still entertaining and thought-provoking and full of all the Willis-isms we have come to expect. Speaking of which, I kept having to remind myself when it was written, since people kept getting “busy signals” when they tried to call each other, which is super anachronistic even for 2001 (sorry Connie).

CSeydel Oh yeah and my 2025 winner is (no surprise here)

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

CSeydel #bookbracket2025 #bookbracket #readingbracket2025 #readingbracket 2w

Amiable “Challenger” was my bracket winner in 2024 and “Hellhound” won it all in 2023! I‘m so glad I didn‘t have to choose between them like you did! 😀 (Although if I did, I think “Hellhound” would come out on top.) 2w

CSeydel @Amiable It was a coin flip for sure! 2w

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